Wednesday 8 October 2014

Alex Preston is an author and journalist. His first novel, This Bleeding City, was published by Faber & Faber in the UK, and across twelve further territories. It won the Spear's and Edinburgh Festival first book prizes as well as being chosen as one of Waterstones New Voices 2010. His second book, The Revelations, was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. His third, In Love and War, will be published by Faber in 2014. He appears regularly on BBC Radio and television and writes for GQ, Harper's Bazaar and Town & Country Magazine as well as for the Observer's New Review. He holds a PhD on Violence in the Modern Novel from UCL and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent.